On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good morning, everyone!
Sorry about the issues later in the week, thought I had things setup and plain forgot. Life is complicated!
Today, we’re off to England!
In late August, I took a two-week tour of London and southern England. These pictures are from the southern England portion of my trip – I loved it. I have many more pictures to share, but am waiting until the site bugs settle down.
BathAugust 28, 2019
This is the Circus, a crescent of Regency townhouses.
Hever CastleAugust 30, 2019
Childhood home of Anne Boleyn
Glastonbury AbbeyAugust 27, 2019
Ruins of the Lady Chapel at Glastonbury Abbey
Ruckus
Funny how it leaves 2 copies of each pic on the front page but not on the comment page.
I recall that it’s done this at least once before since the new site.
David Evans
I love Bath. I lived there till I was 7. My uncle and aunt had an apartment in the Circus. I lived across town and would walk to meet them through the parks. There should be a sunken submarine of mine in one of the ponds.
evodevo
If it’s anything like in Germany, those tiny circular windows on the top of the Regency townhouses were where the servant’s quarters were lol
Ohio Mom
@Ruckus
One thing I have gotten out of this adventure of a new Balloon Juice is a deep appreciation of how deeply weird computer code is.
Sloane Ranger
Bath is a lovely city, full of Georgian architecture and Roman archeology. The Roman baths are magnificent. You can easily spend a long weekend there and will still have only scratched the surface.
I’ve noticed that it sometimes shows the pics twice. It’s a minor issue but I wonder why it does that?
Elizabelle
I want a Sally Lunn cake Right Now! To go with my coffee.
Bath is just lovely. I wonder about the construction of the Circus: did the builder already have commitments from tenants? How did they do that in the 18th century? Are those 99 year leases for the houses … don’t remember, so might have to google it.
The Roman baths are wonderful. The whole small city is.
And poignant to see Anne Boleyn’s childhood home. Our current “POTUS” missed his century. He belongs back with Henry VIII, and is obtuse enough that his head could have fallen in a plot, too.
Ken
@Ohio Mom: It’s a simple consequence of Rice’s theorem. In lay terms, anytime you ask “why did the code do that”, the answer is “impossible to say”. Literally, mathematically impossible.
(Though that’s theory; in practice you can usually find the reason and fix the code.)
scribbler
We stayed in the Circus in a rented apartment-it was lovely! Bath was relaxing, educational, and fun-a wonderful place to stay for a few days.
Ol'Froth
Wasn’t the Circus featured in the movie version of Oliver?
arrieve
Beautiful pictures. Bath is yet another place I’ve always wanted to see. I’m scheduled to be in England next summer, so maybe then….
Leto
Avalune and I loved Bath. The architecture is gorgeous, the tour of the Roman bath’s was very educational, and just a few minutes walking distance away is a multilevel spa that has hot tubs, a huge pool, sauna’s and a top floor (roof) open air hot tub that gives you about 300 degrees of views of the city. It was really nice.
R-Jud
Hever Castle is enchanting; I’ve been in June when the roses were in their pomp.
Zinsky
@Ruckus: Ruckus – I saw the same thing. The pictures were duplicated on the main page but only appear once on the comments page.
Agree with Ohio Mom! I love using computers but when I was trying to learn to write FORTRAN code, I wanted to slit my wrists! Of course, FORTRAN is as dead as Devin Nunes’ brain cells!
WhatsMyNym
@Ohio Mom: Websites are on their own level of computer hell.
Gin & Tonic
@Zinsky: Au contraire, mon ami.
Wag
The pictures are so nice, I appreciated seeing them twice!
J R in WV
@Zinsky:
Glad to hear people realize how hard code is to work with. Even good code! Bad code is always just trial and errir [ ;-) sic ] no matter how hard you think about it.
Original poster of photos to OTR:
Great photos, also too!! Thanks!
TomatoQueen
Bath! oh oh oh my beloved city! And a complement to a very nice BBC piece last night called Jane Austen Behind Closed Doors hosted by Lucy Worseley about all the places Jane lived and wrote about.
Got the double pic, commenting box remembers me without ANY typing, and there was a very nice outlined rectangle where an “advertisement” wants to be, but this IE ad blocker got it. Nice for a Monday.
Ruckus
@Ohio Mom:
I had my own website for my business so I understand. But it was a lot easier at the time because it didn’t really do anything and this does. It was a static display site, 3 or 4 pages, pictures and such, no interaction like this.